Marti wrote:
> Gentoo defaults to launching PostgreSQL 8.2 with "-N 40 -B 80" which
> is how I hit this problem; this was set in a distro-specific
> configuration file which I previously hadn't even looked at. Does this
> mean that these defaults are insane and I should complain loudly?
Why waste time complaining? Jump ship before you drown. Are there some
boats left?
FWIW the Gentoo packaging of Postgres has historically been more broken
than I care to remember. We reported a couple of serious bugs and due
to a complete silence as response I stopped wasting my with it.
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